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calves

[kavz, kahvz] / kævz, kɑvz /


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The news hit right before the September-November window when most US calves are weaned and sold.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In the 1870s, a Pend d’Oreille Indian named Walking Coyote captured a few bison calves from northern Montana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The observation adds to the small number of documented cases involving deceased calves in baleen whales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The last documented California grizzly killed was hunted down in August 1922 by a Tulare County rancher named Jesse Agnew, who blamed his dead calves on the grizzly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Green climbed up onto the ice and got the stove going to boil up some milk, while several men in the boats mooed like impatient calves.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong


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